Top Startup and Tech Funding News – November 12, 2025
Nickie Louise
Posted On November 12, 2025
It’s Wednesday, November 12, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories making waves today. From billion-dollar AI infrastructure bets to cybersecurity, robotics, fintech, and next-gen data platforms, investors showed no signs of slowing down as capital flowed into both late-stage leaders and ambitious early-stage disruptors.
Today’s highlights feature d-Matrix, which raised $275 million in Series C funding at a $2 billion valuation to scale its next-generation AI inference hardware; Sweet Security, which secured $75 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native cloud protection platform; and WisdomAI, which closed a $50 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to help enterprises analyze complex and messy data through a unified natural-language interface.
The momentum extended across verticals — from robotics and industrial AI to multilingual AI agents, fintech lending, and early-stage infrastructure breakthroughs — underscoring continued investor confidence in frontier innovation.
Funding Highlights
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d-Matrix raised $275 million in Series C funding at a $2 billion valuation to scale its AI inference chip platform.
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Sweet Security secured $75 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native cloud security suite.
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WisdomAI closed a $50 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and NVIDIA’s NVentures.
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Foxglove raised $40 million in Series B funding to enhance its robotics and Physical-AI data platform.
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Wonderful secured $100 million at a $700 million valuation to scale its multilingual AI-agent system.
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Armis Security raised $400 million in pre-IPO financing as it prepares for a 2026 listing.
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Finnable brought in ₹250 crore (~$30 million) in Series C funding for its digital lending expansion.
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BoomPop raised $25 million in equity plus $16 million in debt to scale its AI-powered corporate event platform.
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Uare.ai raised $10.3 million in seed funding to build its Individual AI platform.
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Seismic secured $10 million in seed funding to protect sensitive fintech data pipelines.
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Quickads added $1.7 million in seed funding to expand its generative-AI content engine.
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Tensormesh raised $4.5 million in seed funding to optimize AI inference through LMCache technology.
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Theo Ai Inc. secured $3.4 million to advance its predictive litigation analytics platform.
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Litmus AI received new growth financing led by Insight Partners to scale industrial AI deployments.
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Amae Health raised $25 million in Series B funding to expand its whole-person mental-health platform.
Investor Activity
Today’s rounds drew participation from some of the most active venture backers — including Kleiner Perkins, Temasek, IVP, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Evolution Equity Partners, Wing VC, Mayfield, and NVIDIA’s NVentures — highlighting strong conviction in AI infrastructure, cloud security, fintech, industrial AI, and applied robotics.
Early-stage firms such as Laude Ventures, Run Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, and Kae Capital continued to anchor seed-stage innovation across the U.S., Israel, Europe, and India, signaling a healthy global deal flow for both foundational AI tooling and emerging application layers.
Together, these financings mark a strong mid-November showing — with AI hardware, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and automation startups leading the charge toward the next wave of technological transformation.
Here’s the full breakdown. Until tomorrow, have a great evening.
d-Matrix Raises $275M in Series C Funding at $2B Valuation for AI Inference Hardware
d‑Matrix, a Santa Clara-based chip startup focused on inference-optimised architecture, has raised $275 million in a Series C round, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion. The round was co-led by Bullhound Capital, Triatomic Capital, and Temasek, with participation from sovereign wealth funds and strategic backers.
d-Matrix’s technology embeds compute and memory in the same architecture (“in-memory compute”) to boost speed and reduce power and cost for inference workloads. The funds will support manufacturing scale-up, global expansion, and major cloud and enterprise deployments.
Founded by veterans of Xilinx and Synopsys, d-Matrix has built an ecosystem that combines hardware, networking, and software. Its JetStream fabric enables seamless scaling across data centers, while the Aviator software stack optimizes generative AI workloads from edge to cloud. The company says its mission is to break through the limits of latency, cost, and energy that define today’s AI infrastructure.
Funding Details:
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Startup: d-Matrix
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Investors: Bullhound Capital (lead), Triatomic Capital, Temasek, Qatar Investment Authority, EDBI, M12 (Microsoft’s VC)
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Amount Raised: $275 million
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Total Raised: ~$450 million to date Tech Startups
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Funding Stage: Series C
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Sweet Security Raises $75M in Series B Funding for Cloud & AI-Native Security Platform
Sweet Security, an Israeli startup founded in 2023, announced a $75 million Series B round led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Glilot Capital Partners, Key1 Capital, and Munich Re Ventures.
The company offers an AI-driven cloud security platform that includes runtime protection for cloud-native apps and AI-specific attack surfaces — including “shadow AI” detection of undocumented LLM servers and agents. The funds will fuel global expansion and broader product development to meet rising demand for AI security.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Sweet Security
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Investors: Evolution Equity Partners (lead), Glilot Capital Partners, Key1 Capital, Munich Re Ventures
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Amount Raised: $75 million
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Total Raised: $120 million (per the company)
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Funding Stage: Series B
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Seismic Raises $10M in Seed Funding to Help Fintechs Secure Customer Data
Seismic (crypto/fintech security startup) secured $10 million in seed funding to build a platform helping fintechs protect customer and transaction data. The raise underscores increasing investor attention in startups focused on securing sensitive fintech datasets and infrastructure as regulatory pressure rises globally.
Seismic’s solution tailors security controls for fintech platforms, bridging traditional and crypto-native risk profiles.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Seismic
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Investors: (Lead not specified in report)
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Amount Raised: $10 million
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Total Raised: $10 million (seed)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
WisdomAI Secures $50M Series A for “Dirty” Data Analytics
WisdomAI, the analytics startup founded by the co-founder of Rubrik, has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm). The Mountain View–area company enables business users to ask natural-language questions across structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data (i.e., data with typos, errors, or inconsistencies).
The fresh capital will fund go-to-market expansion and product development to serve enterprises grappling with complex data sets. WisdomAI emerged from stealth in May with $23 million in funding to fix what’s broken in enterprise decision-making.
Founded by Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, WisdomAI is building an AI-driven platform that helps enterprises make faster, smarter decisions. By connecting scattered data and replacing dashboards with intelligent agents, the startup wants to give teams across the business direct access to insights they can act on.
WisdomAI is the first agentic data insights platform powered by self-learning AI agents that can reason through complex business problems—whether it’s analyzing supply chains, forecasting sales, or answering tough strategic questions. It’s already being used by industry giants and Fortune 100 companies like Cisco and ConocoPhillips
Funding Details:
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Startup: WisdomAI
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Investors: Kleiner Perkins (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA), with prior seed led by Coatue
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Amount Raised: $50 million
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Total Raised: ~$23 million (seed) + $50 million = ~$73 million
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Funding Stage: Series A
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
BoomPop Raises $25 M (plus $16 M debt) to Power AI-Driven Corporate Events
BoomPop, an AI-powered event-planning platform based in San Francisco, has secured $25 million in equity funding and an additional $16 million of debt/credit to expand its offering of AI-driven corporate-offsite and event-planning services.
The round was led by Wing VC, with participation from Atomic, Acme Capital, Four Rivers Group, Thayer Investment Partners, the Fund of Operators Guild, and Gaingels. The company, founded via the Atomic Venture Studio during COVID and rebranded in 2023, will deploy the funds toward product expansion, scaling sales, and deeper enterprise integrations.
Funding Details:
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Startup: BoomPop
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Investors: Wing VC (lead), Atomic, Acme Capital, Four Rivers Group, Thayer Investment Partners, Fund of Operators Guild, Gaingels
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Amount Raised: $25 million equity + $16 million debt/credit
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Total Raised: ~ $56 million to date
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Funding Stage: Growth / late-seed (equity + debt)
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Uare.ai (formerly Eternos) Raises $10.3M in Seed Funding to Build Personal AI Platform
Uare.ai, previously known as Eternos, has raised $10.3 million in a seed round to push its vision of “Individual AI” — software models unique to a person’s voice, memories, and decision-making patterns.
The round was led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures, with additional strategic participants. Based in Palo Alto, the startup now pivots from legacy/digital-twin tech to empowering professionals and creators.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Uare.ai
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Investors: Mayfield (lead), Boldstart Ventures, and other strategic investors
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Amount Raised: $10.3 million
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Total Raised: $10.3 million (seed)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Amae Health Raises $25M in Series B Funding for AI-Driven Whole-Person Mental-Health Platform
Amae Health, a startup focused on whole-person care for individuals with severe mental illness, has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. The capital will expand its AI-powered precision-care platform, strengthen partnerships with health systems, and scale operations across new geographies.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Amae Health
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Investors: (Lead not specified in source)
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Amount Raised: $25 million
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Total Raised: Not disclosed
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Funding Stage: Series B
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Funding Date: November 7, 2025 (reported Nov 12)
Quickads Raises $1.7M in Seed Funding for Gen-AI-Led Content Creation Platform
Quickads, a generative-AI-driven content-creation startup, has secured $1.7 million in seed funding via Kae Capital (lead), along with participation from Google and Meta executives. The company aims to streamline advertising content production using GenAI models and promises quick turnaround times for ad-creative generation.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Quickads
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Investors: Kae Capital (lead), additional backers including Google/Meta-linked individuals
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Amount Raised: $1.7 million
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Total Raised: $1.7 million (seed)
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 4, 2025 (reported Nov 12)
Foxglove Closes $40M in Series B Funding to Power Physical AI Infrastructure
Foxglove, which develops a data & observability platform for robotics and “Physical AI,” raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Eclipse and Amplify Partners.
Based in San Francisco and founded in 2021 by engineers from Cruise, Aurora, Amazon Robotics, and other autonomous-systems players, Foxglove helps robotics companies ingest, manage, and analyse multimodal sensor data (e.g., video, audio, GNSS/time series) at scale.
With fresh capital and growing adoption, Foxglove is positioning itself as the backbone of the Physical AI movement — a company building the unseen data infrastructure that may soon power the robots shaping the future of work, industry, and everyday life. The new funding will expand the full data-lifecycle platform — from development to test to operations — as Physical AI adoption accelerates.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Foxglove
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Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Eclipse, Amplify Partners
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Amount Raised: $40 million
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Total Raised: Not disclosed (at least $40M now)
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Funding Stage: Series B
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Tensormesh Emerges from Stealth with $4.5M in Seed Funding to Optimize AI Inference Efficiency
Tensormesh, a U.S.-based AI infrastructure startup, launched from stealth and raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Laude Ventures, with angel backing from database pioneer Michael Franklin. The company is building a commercial version of LMCache to improve the performance of inference workloads — promising up to 10× cost reduction by caching key-value state between queries. The funds will accelerate its product launch and bring its innovations into enterprise deployments.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Tensormesh
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Investors: Laude Ventures (lead), Michael Franklin (angel)
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Amount Raised: $4.5 million
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Total Raised: ~$4.5 million
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Funding Stage: Seed
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Theo Ai Inc. Raises $3.4M in Funding to Scale its Predictive Litigation Platform
Theo Ai Inc., a legal-tech startup founded in 2024, announced a $3.4 million funding round led by Run Ventures. The company provides AI-driven predictive analytics for law firms and corporate legal teams — forecasting settlement likelihood, case cost, and risk. The fresh capital will fund scaling its engineering team, expanding product depth, and building enterprise integrations. Its total funding now exceeds $10 million.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Theo Ai Inc.
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Investors: Run Ventures (lead)
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Amount Raised: $3.4 million
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Total Raised: > $10 million
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Funding Stage: Seed (or follow-on seed)
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Litmus AI Secures Additional Investment from Insight Partners to Accelerate Industrial AI
Litmus AI, an industrial-AI software provider, announced that it secured an additional investment led by Insight Partners to further accelerate its growth. The company develops AI systems for industrial enterprises (including manufacturing, energy, and IoT) to embed intelligence across operations. The new funding will help scale its platform globally and build more domain-specific modules.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Litmus AI
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Investors: Insight Partners (lead)
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Amount Raised: (Exact amount not publicly disclosed)
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Total Raised: Not disclosed
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Funding Stage: Growth/expansion round
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Wonderful Raises $100M in Funding at ~$700M Valuation to Scale Multilingual AI-Agent Platform
Wonderful, an Amsterdam-and Israel-based startup building a multilingual AI-agent platform, secured $100 million in new funding, valuing the company at about $700 million. Their technology enables voice, chat, and email agents that understand local languages, cultures, and enterprise workflows. The infusion will fund global expansion (especially Asia–Pacific in early 2026) and accelerate enterprise adoption.
Founded in early 2025 by Bar Winkler and Roey Lalazar, Wonderful has built a platform that helps enterprises deploy and manage AI agents that can interact with customers across voice, chat, and email—in any language, and with cultural awareness baked in. These agents don’t just translate words; they adapt tone, phrasing, and behavior to match local customs, giving global companies a way to serve customers as if every market had its own team on the ground.
Funding Details:
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Startup: Wonderful
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Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer, Vine Ventures
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Amount Raised: $100 million
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Total Raised: ~$134 million (prior ~$34 million + this round)
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Funding Stage: Growth / large private round
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Funding Date: November 12, 2025
Tech Funding Summary Table
| Startup | Investors (Lead & Notable) | Amount Raised | Total Raised | Funding Stage | Funding Date |
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| WisdomAI | Kleiner Perkins (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA Ventures) | $50 million | ~$73 million | Series A | Nov 12 2025 |
| d-Matrix | Bullhound Capital (lead), Triatomic Capital, Temasek, QIA, EDBI, M12 (Microsoft Ventures) | $275 million | ~$450 million | Series C | Nov 12 2025 |
| Foxglove | Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Eclipse, Amplify Partners | $40 million | Not disclosed | Series B | Nov 12 2025 |
| Sweet Security | Evolution Equity Partners (lead), Glilot Capital, Key1 Capital, Munich Re Ventures | $75 million | $120 million | Series B | Nov 12 2025 |
| Seismic | (Lead not specified) | $10 million | $10 million | Seed | Nov 12 2025 |
| BoomPop | Wing VC (lead), Atomic, Acme Capital, Four Rivers Group, Thayer Partners, Fund of Operators Guild, Gaingels | $25 M equity + $16 M debt | ~$56 million | Growth / late-seed (equity + debt) | Nov 12 2025 |
| Uare.ai | Mayfield (lead), Boldstart Ventures, others | $10.3 million | $10.3 million | Seed | Nov 12 2025 |
| Wonderful | Index Ventures (lead), Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer, Vine Ventures | $100 million | ~$134 million | Growth / private round | Nov 12 2025 |
| Amae Health | (Lead not specified) | $25 million | Not disclosed | Series B | Nov 7 (Reported Nov 12 2025) |
| Quickads | Kae Capital (lead), Google / Meta executives (angels) | $1.7 million | $1.7 million | Seed | Nov 4 (Reported Nov 12 2025) |
| Tensormesh | Laude Ventures (lead), Michael Franklin (angel) | $4.5 million | $4.5 million | Seed | Nov 12 2025 |
| Theo Ai Inc. | Run Ventures (lead) | $3.4 million | > $10 million | Seed/follow-on seed | Nov 12 2025 |
| Litmus AI | Insight Partners (lead) | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Growth/expansion | Nov 12 2025 |
| Finnable | Z47 Capital, TVS Capital Funds (lead and co-investors) | ₹250 crore (~$30 million USD) | Not disclosed | Series C | Nov 12 2025 |
| Armis Security | One Equity Partners (lead), Insight Partners, Brookfield Technology Partners, Accel | $400 million | ~$900 million + | Pre-IPO round | Nov 12 2025 |
Total Coverage: 15 funding rounds across AI, security, healthtech, fintech, infrastructure, and industrial automation.
Aggregate Capital Raised (Today’s Announcements): ≈ $1.04 billion+ across disclosed amounts
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